On the third Saturday in September each year, people all over the world celebrate Software Freedom Day. It's a day when free software developers and users raise awareness in their local community of the benefits that software freedoms bring.

LinuxCon is the leading annual technical conference in North America, providing a much needed collaboration and education space for the Linux community. Launched in 2009, LinuxCon has quickly become known for offering top speaking talent, a cross-section of the leading players in the Linux community, innovative and timely content, a wide variety of opportunities for attendee collaboration and a place for smaller groups to co-locate for topic-specific mini-summits and workgroups. Co-located with the Linux Kernel Summit and the Linux Plumbers Conference in 2012, LinuxCon North America promises to deliver sponsors the opportunity to connect with the leaders of the Linux community in one place.

Who Should Attend:

Software Developers, Linux IT Professionals, Corporate End Users, Senior Business Executives, IT Operations Experts, System Administrators, Students, Media and anyone else with an interest in the Linux ecosystem.

The Linux Audio Conference is the international conference about Open Source Software for music, sound and other media with Linux as the main platform. 2012 marked the 10th anniversary of the event and it is the first time the LAC took place in the United States.

The northeast GNU/Linux fest is an advocate of Free software. The 4 Freedoms that should be concerned about.

The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).

The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).

The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

The Linux and Unix Users Group at Virginia Tech (VTLUUG or "the LUUG") is dedicated to improving the computing skills of its members, supporting Linux and Unix use on campus, and serving the community through Free Software and open data.

OraToolKit is a collection of tools to ease and optimize Oracle setups throughout the whole lifecycle. With its all-purpose usage it can also be called "The Swiss Army Knife for Oracle". Released as open source software it provides to companies using Oracle database technology many benefits. Those can be seen from financial, efficiency as well as from usability point of view. Goal of this open source project is to help reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) when running Oracle on Unix based systems. Supported are currently Linux and Solaris. In Q3/Q4 there there will be a new OTK release which will support IBM AIX as well as HP-UX. Future releases of an OTK light running on Microsoft Windows operating systems may not be excluded.

Disruptive technologies like cloud, social, mobile and information are revolutionizing business. The opportunity to leverage information innovation is right before us. The most successful CIOs and senior IT leaders will embrace the future by turning their attention to growth, cost reduction and competitive differentiation — all while filtering out the unproductive "noise" that can compromise clarity and purpose.

Faced with fundamental changes to the enterprise ecosystem, IT leaders must acquire a new ability to Focus on the issues that matter, Connect people and ideas, and Lead with creativity and confidence.